Kitchen ArabicKitchen Arabic

"Immigrant children first speak the language of their mothers, and in Toledo, Ohio's Little Syria neighborhood where I grew up, the first place you'd go to find your mother would be the kitchen. There, my mom took special pride in the traditional Syro-Lebanese food she cooked. Kitchen Arabic is a compilation both of her recipes and of the family stories that came with them. It is as much a memoir as a cookbook because the stories and recipes complement the telling of our early years in America, our struggle to learn the language and ways of a new world, and how the food of our heritage sustained us throughout that struggle, speaking to us-in a language that needs no translation-of joy and comfort and love"--